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David Axelrod’s mustache is slashed

For the first time in four decades, David Axelrod’s upper lip is bare.

The top strategist for President Barack Obama’s reelection had his mustache shaved off on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday morning after MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski helped him raise $1 million for CURE, an epilepsy charity he founded.

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At that point, a professional barber — later identified as “Steve from EShave” — took over and got the job done in a few minutes, first with an electric razor and then finishing up with a straight razor and some shaving cream.

Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida who lost an Election Day bet to Axelrod, prompting the $1 million challenge, had offered to use a straight razor. “I was not going to let Joe Scarborough near my neck with a straight razor,” Axelrod said.

Axelrod and his wife, Susan — who has never known her husband without a mustache — founded Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy. Their daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy as an infant. Among those who chipped in: former Obama administration car czar Steve Rattner, George Clooney, Haim Saban, Obama nemesis Donald Trump and the president himself.

After Axelrod’s mustache had departed for the great beyond, Trump called into the show, and the pair recounted when Axelrod met Trump’s daughter, Ivanka.